"The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity."
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"If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that."
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"You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way."
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"I'm organised in some ways, but not in others."
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"You’re not going to learn anything if you’re not prepared to go flat, so I’m very happy to go flat."
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"I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material."
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"America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in."
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"In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways."
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"You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself."
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"Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't."
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"I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets."
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"Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year."
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"I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything."
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"Do your own thing. Speak in your voice."
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"I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it."
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"Go and lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move. I'm locking the door now"
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"One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing."
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"The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line."
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"We all know smoking is bad. I know I'm going to quit someday, if I thought I wasn't I'd quit now."
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"I wish I was like you! You know startled by direct sunlight."
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